#novel edits

[burntoutdaydreamer]

Questions I Ask My Beta Readers

"Did you like it?" just doesn't cut it when you're trying to get useful feedback, so here's some questions that get your reader really thinking about your work:

What are your general impressions after reading? How did you feel when the book ended? 

(For fantasy/sci-fi) What did you find most confusing about the world? What did you find the most interesting? What do you want to know more about? 

Were there any scenes that broke your suspension of disbelief? Which ones? Why?

Which chapters were the hardest to get through? Did you find yourself skimming the text at any point in the story? 

Which character was your favorite? Which was your least favorite? Why? (Note that this question is best when asking multiple readers. If one person really dislikes a character, it could be personal preference. If multiple people can't stand a character for the same reason.... well, that's a problem you need to fix. Unless, of course, you want your readers to hate that character. Just make sure that their hatred enhances the reading experience instead of ruining it).

Did you get any characters confused or mixed up? If so, did this make the story hard to follow?

What was the most suspenseful moment in the book? What was your favorite moment of the story? What was your least favorite moment in the story? Why?

Which setting in the book was clearest to you as you were reading it? Which setting was the most difficult to envision?

Did you feel there was a lot of info dumping at any point? If so, where?

How do you feel about the plot? Were there any parts that confused you or seemed nonsensical/ illogical?

Did you feel any part of the story was predictable? Do you have any predictions for the next book(s)? If so, what are they? (Again, another question that's best when asking multiple readers. Be aware of your audience here. Some people, especially those who read a lot, are really good at predicting where stories are going to go. If those people are able to guess what happens next, that might actually be a good thing, because it could indicate that your story is progressing logically. Too much predictability is a problem, but a little isn't bad. This question is just to make sure the plot twists/progression aren't painfully obvious to most readers).

What plot holes did you find in the story so far? 

Were you invested in the story? If so, at what point did you become invested? Did you lose this interest at any point? (The second point here is really good for determining whether you have a slow beginning. Sometimes readers might really like your story overall, but would not have gotten past the first few chapters if they were reading it for fun instead of as a favor for you. This happened to me last time I asked someone to read my work, and it made it clear how much of the beginning I needed to rewrite entirely).

Any other questions or comments? 

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[gaywaren]

FULL COVER ILLUSTRATIONS OF HEAVEN OFFICIAL'S BLESSING ENG EDITION VOLUMES 1-8

A-xin (tai3_3) really did a great job by providing us the best hualian art to exist! I remember seeing these arts way before 7seas licensed the novel and now we can finally share the full illustrations 🫶🏻

#天官赐福 #tian guan ci fu #tgcf #heaven official's blessing #heaven official’s blessing #heaven officials blessing #mo xiang tong xiu #mxtx #mxtx novels #tgcf eng edition #hua cheng #xie lian #hualian #mxtx characters #hualian official art #tgcf official art

[saintmichale]

Snap girl I think you dropped something, my jaw

#mcr #mcr australia #gerard way #my chemical romance #my chem #mcr art #office Gerard #pulp covers #pulp novel #illustration #digital art #digital edits #my art #mcr tour 2023 #mcr 2023 #return

[bardandbear]

But whose heart would not take flight? Betray the moon as acolyte On first and fierce affirming sight Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight

#bg3 #bg3 edit #bg3 screenshots #astarion #i have so many fucking FEELINGS about this scene #like the bathing in sunlight would be powerful enough #but it's freedom it's cleansing it's healing it's peace #in the context of what happened the previous night #he doesn't want to turn and look at the PC #his FACE when he has to #UGH #I could write essays #novels #epics

[violetvulpini]

Something about mentors learning from their students just as much as they teach them.

(pls reblog if you can? I put so much work into these lol)

#The Owl House #Hunter toh #The Golden Guard #Darius Deamonne #Darius toh #Previous Golden Guard #Hunter Deamonne #graphic novel #comic art #All I want in life is to feed the Darius stans #I'm Darius stans #I have a few hcs on the prev GG but I'll just note in my head their name is Brune #I stg I sat down and started this project and didn't stop til it was done. Time ceased to exist #Please Titan if this bombs I will be SO smad #Edit: WE'RE ALMOST AT 20K WHAT THE HELL????? #Yeah if this hits that milestone I will explode on the spot. I'm exploding right now. Thank you all so much aAAA #Edit 2: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[daily-prompts]

Typing a long document: yes. YES! Writing is my passion :)

Editing a long document: Pain. Hell. Death.

#editing #writer #writing #writeblr #novel #guys im over minimum novel length and i have been editing for years #what even is grammar

[thenightsong]

RESIDENT LOVER - Headmistress Miranda

#i have a type #resident evil #resident lover #mother miranda #residentloveredit #visual novel #videogamewomen #gamingedit #reeviledit #my edit #resident evil 8 #resident evil village #whoever wrote her route is amazing #my heart was racing #amazing work team AVIA i love y'all

[moiraimyths]

can you elaborate on what you mean by romance being a social construct? just trying to understand here, because by that logic to be aromantic is to be against the social construct of romance or what most people view as romance

What does "romance" or "romantic" mean? Most people when answering that question will list specific signifiers or feelings that we commonly associate with romance or romantic feelings, but these things don't have to be romantic. They're 'coded' as romantic because we associate them with romance as a byproduct of our culture. Simple example: Kissing on the lips. Pretty safe to say this action is frequently cited as a romantic gesture. But is it objectively a romantic gesture? No. There are plenty of cultures, currently and throughout history, where kissing on the lips is not romantic. Hell, kissing in some cultures isn't a thing at all/considered unsanitary! Therefore, kissing on the lips is not objectively romantic or some universal phenomenon. It's socially constructed.

The same thing can apply to romantic feelings. First: Feelings of sexuality that often (but not always!) go toe to toe with romance are not inherently romantic. You can be attracted to someone, or be intimate with someone, and not feel romantic feelings. So we need to separate sexuality from romance. What does that leave us with? Great care for someone? A feeling of closeness? A desire to never be parted with someone? Are these feelings romantic? Yes, but they aren't always. Stripped of any other pretenses, you could easily apply those feelings to your friends or family members. What makes them romantic is socially contextual, and subjectively determined. Therefore: Romance is a social construct.

People who identify as aromantic will have different reasons for subscribing to the label. Some may be aromantic because the feelings typically associated with romance just don't happen with them, and sometimes (but not always!!!) asexuality plays a part here as well. But for other aro folk, it's not always that consistent. Maybe they do feel those feelings, but only under some circumstances. Or maybe they feel some of those feelings, but not all of them, or inconsistently, or don't really think of those feelings as romantic at all or in the moment. Romance, like sexuality, is more fluid than we tend to realize, but romance as a specific, socially determined construct can be suffocating for those who don't quite fit in the box. Especially once you start throwing in the other social expectations that romance is typically associated with: Living together, marriage, having kids, permanence, etc. In those instances, some folks may gravitate toward the aromantic label simply because they oppose the rigidness of the construct.

Ultimately, our purpose with our arospec characters (Keagan, Robin, and Daonna) is to explore these variations.

#ask #clotho answers #ndm #aromantic #edit: we're an indie gaming company making a visual novel about irish mythology. all routes can be played platonically or romantically

[milkbreadtoast]

idk how i want to draw him yet and not ready to make a srs attempt but here's a bad kdj phone doodle lol🚶🏻

#orv #kim dokja #omniscient reader's viewpoint #my art #oh yeah i didnt have ref for this fkdnfn was going off memory of the last (first) time i drew him #i cant do a serious attempt tho bc i havent read the novel so i dont have a clear image of him in my head yet... #(dont want to just copy the webtoon design hastily... if it matches my image thats fine but... idk yet) #my main opinion on the webtoon design is he's too hot/ikemen tho KFJDKDJ (this is what i thought since the beginning) #its like BONES mp100 anime reigen.... kdj is like manga reigen to me /j #but who knows maybe if i catch kdj brainrot i too will start drawing him like a kpop idol out of affection...🤷🏻‍♂️ #like the webtoon artist prob draws kdj pretty bc they love him sm #just like how i draw jys pretty bc of my brainrot... #so who knows maybe that will happen to me too🤷🏻‍♂️ time will tell #my main opinion on webtoon yjh (no one asked): CUTE BUT WHERES THE T1TTY BEL- *voice muffled as i get dragged away* #(copied most of these tags from twit too lazy to retype the commentary) #EDIT: i call him reigen jokingly bc theyre abt the same age but #kdj is also mob core to me.... #in that theyre both protags that dont look flashy and look more like extras/'mob charas' #yet r irrevocably unequivocably the protags of their respective stories #(just as everyone is the protag of your own life! sieze ur narrative! etcetc🖤) #also. both black haired bowlcut havers KJDJS #kdj is reigen coded (derogatory) and mob coded (POS) #hes also a 'con man like reigen..... yep hes def still reigen coded

[radley-writes]

UNPOPULAR WRITEBLR OPINIONS go go go

I'll start: editing the first draft is fine, actually

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #creative writing #original writing #I think once you get through the hurdle of finishing a novel especially #you have more confidence in yourself #and can edit as much as you fucking want and still know you'll get to the end of the first draft #and have a much cleaner draft overall! #it all literally just depends on how you like to work. there's no 'right way' to write a first draft.

[tricoufamily]

did my challenge <3 came up w this story about a hitman who falls in love with his boss's new fiancé and they have an affair

#prettiest female sim i've ever made i think. see i can do it i can make female sims (do not ask me to try to recreate the success of this) #is this the most trashy romance novel idea i've ever come up with yes. am i in love with it yes #you don't even know how much i got into this ok the lore the character development the side characters #ts4 #ts4 cas #ts4 edit #the sims 4 #i named them: #jared #& #anne #tricoufamily duo challenge

[khattikeri]

one of my favorite things about mdzs is that for how heavily its plot involves politics of classism and misogyny... even the characters most directly impacted by it can't and don't free themselves from it. literally the closest exception is mianmian.

meng yao being the "son of a whore" wasn't some sort of commie awakening for him that led him to wanting everyone to be socially equal. he played the political game, climbed the ladders, sucked up to and backstabbed and murdered people, including other prostitutes who actually had nothing to do with how he and his mother were treated at the brothel he grew up in.

he put in so much extra excessive effort for even a fraction of the same respect that members of gentry cultivation clans got. and he did deserve to be treated more humanely! but he feeds into the exact same system that created him, leading to his own undoing.

his efforts were for a fragile upward mobility that was never going to hold up. he never surpassed his origins nor did he empower others in similar stations, because the society he lives in is not one that would accept that.

the second he got caught and all those crimes exposed, he was scapegoated to hell and back, replacing wei wuxian as society's terrible one-sidedly evil boogeyman overnight.

speaking of not-quite male gentry, i think it's interesting that wei wuxian explicitly doesn't try to climb the ladders in BOTH lives, knowing full well that anything he does will be punished just for the sheer fact that he is wei wuxian.

wei wuxian is scolded for giving intelligent and correct answers in school. lan wangji does the same and is praised.

wei wuxian occasionally lounges around with fellow disciples and is punished. jiang cheng does the same and mostly escapes.

wei wuxian refuses to carry his sword around in public (after losing his golden core, which nobody knows) and is scorned as an arrogant upstart. nie huaisang has been doing the EXACT SAME THING for YEARS and nobody bats an eye.

unlike jin guangyao, wei wuxian knew subconsciously from the start that his acceptance was superficial and that he could be cast out any time. when he was 10 and recently taken in by the jiangs, he canonically would not eat or use "too much" food and water because he thought they'd find him a nuisance for "wasting their things" and kick him back out.

now away from just the classism, yu ziyuan is a proud and strong noblewoman in a society that belittles and derides women for everything they do. her strong cultivation doesn't matter. she's victim to the vicious rumors of her husband loving another woman who is strong like her but apparently had a more likeable personality.

it doesn't matter even if jiang fengmian didn't cheat or that wei wuxian is wei changze's son with cangse sanren; yu ziyuan can't bear with the humiliation of herself (and by extension her children) not being "good enough". she's ridiculed for "failing" in that one duty as a wife, mother, and woman.

she lashes out and takes out that anger on everyone present for years, giving her children lasting trauma and also being a key element in how the jiang family and yunmeng jiang sect are effectively wiped out at the hands of the wen clan.

madam jin doesn't even have a name outside of the fact that she's married to jin guangshan. i don't even remember reading anything that indicates if she's a strong or weak cultivator, or what, which in itself proves that to most people, it doesn't matter. she's "just" a woman.

of course she's angry at her husband's affairs and all the bastard children they bring in. but she also can't do anything about them, so she lashes out at the few people she can: servants. non-cultivators, probably. those very same bastard children.

shoutout to meng yao getting shoved down a flight of stairs at age fourteen, because if madam jin tried that move against her husband instead, it would make her lose even more face, which as a noblewoman she'd never do.

and that's not getting into how jiang yanli is consistently sidelined for being physically weak.

that's not getting into how mianmian was actually a good cultivator, but was mocked by everyone around her for trying to stand up for wei wuxian when everyone was turning on him. how everyone scoffed at luo qingyang's words as "just some lovesick woman" who "obviously wants to marry or bed him since he saved her".

luo qingyang is the only one of these characters who HASN'T died. she didn't play society's games like jin guangyao. she didn't dig her heels in confidence of her own abilities like wei wuxian.

she didn't bitterly lash out like yu ziyuan and madam jin. she didn't gently accept it like jiang yanli.

she just LEFT.

she married an ordinary merchant and cultivates separately from mainstream cultivation society, and therein found her own peace and happiness.

mxtx doesn't bother with particularly class conscious or feminist vocabulary to hand-hold readers into understanding these disparities, but that choice highlights them & the deeply entrenched politics of their society even more. i really love it.

#keri chats #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #long post #mdzs spoilers #im novel only but still tagging. #the untamed #cql #yeah yeah everyone's written meta addressing this aspect of the story BUT I THINK ABOUT IT ALL THE TIMEEEEE #maybe i just don't get to read a ton of books often; esp not ones that mirror my own culture. but it's just so. soooooo. augh #the fact that the setting itself enables so much of the tragedy in mdzs... which is true of all tragedies but STILL... #this isn't even getting into qin su and the power imbalance w her and jgy post-reveal... man. #man. so much going on here. man #THIS POST IS MESSY AND BARELY EDITED BUT IF U READ IT. ILU

[gaywaren]

official cover illustrations from the tgcf simplified cn revised edition!

kuri huang, the illustrator, who also did the covers of strike the zither, posted the HD cover illustrations of the revised edition of tgcf on twitter! here's the link to their post on twitter~ make sure to leave comments on their tweet ♥️

here's the bonus illustrations for the book box made by 黄油天际 on weibo ♡

#天官赐福 #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven officials blessing #heaven official’s blessing #heaven official's blessing #mo xiang tong xiu #mxtx novels #mxtx #xie lian #hua cheng #hualian #mxtx characters #tgcf revised edition #tgcf official art #hualian official art

[soureggs]

i just love him sooo much :,(!!!!!

i ship him so hard with my bimbooc

i havent realy drawn in a while

i know hes not an emo but its just so silly to hc it

he belongs to @fantasia-kitt

#tkatb vn #the kid at the back vn #The kid at the back #katb vn #katb_vn #tkatb_vn #Tkatb fanart #VN #visual novel #yandere vn #yandere #2000s emo #emo edit

[sahind]

Bill Skarsgård as Eric Draven in THE CROW (2024)

#the crow #the crow 2024 #the crow film #the crow movie #the crow 2024 film #the crow 2024 movie #eric draven #bill skarsgård #bill skarsgard #graphic novel #crow #revenge #vengeance #gothic #goth #emo #gif #gifedit #edit #film #movie #filmedit #movieedit #thecrowedit #billskarsgardedit #ericdravenedit #thecrow2024edit

[focusontheheart]

Follow Aloy on this new adventure, unlike any she's experienced before!

8 love interests await 7 different Aloys, with a plethora of side characters, 25+ backgrounds, 40+ original songs and 45+ full illustrations that feature in this adventure. Crafted by 30+ fans, this labor of love boasts over 20 different endings for you to explore and experience alongside Aloy.

Free to play Spring 2024 for PC and Mac!

#focus on the heart #foth #foth dating sim fangame #foth visual novel fangame #horizon forbidden west #foth: game trailer #video edit: nerdartist #music: meliko #aloy #aloy x alva #aloy x drakka #aloy x erend #aloy x kotallo #aloy x nil #aloy x petra #aloy x seyka #aloy x talanah